The Big Brother household was continuing to get back to normal today, following the bust-up that has forced one of the show's backroom staff to quit.

Criminologist Professor David Wilson warned that the reintroduction of Emma and Geordie Michelle back into the house would cause "conflict", but they were let back in to disastrous results.

"I realised that advice hadn't been listened to, it was at that point I thought I should go," he told Channel 4 News.

Madonna wins

POP star Madonna has won her bid to stop ramblers walking across most of her £9m country estate.

A public inquiry has ruled that the public has no right to 15 of 17 segments of land within the 1,354 acre Ashcombe House estate on the Wiltshire-Dorset border.

Israel attacks

ISRAELI helicopters fired six missiles at two metal workshops and a third empty building in a crowded Gaza Strip neighbourhood.

Three people were slightly injured in yesterday's attacks

Titanic treaty

BRITAIN and the US has signed a treaty to protect the site of the Titanic wreck from damage and looting. The treaty, which must be approved by legislative bodies, would set up regulations to control visits to the site.

Price forecast

HOUSE prices are set to fall by 20% during the next three years as the booming property market corrects itself, the Capital Economics research group claims.

Bronte sale

A FIRST edition of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre sold for nearly £23,000 at auction.

The rare, triple-volume work was sold to a private bidder at Sotheby's in New York.

Snake assault

A MAN who threw a rattlesnake into an Idaho bar has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Roger Hunter, 28, walked into Chic's Lounge in Idaho Falls, and allegedly pulled the 3?ft rattler from his pocket, threw it into the crowd and fled.